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Started The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker and

*2001 - A Space oddyssey *by Arthur C. Clark

God bless
 
Ruth Burrows (Carmelite) Essence of Prayer

Only started it, so far I am impressed 🙂
 
“A Distant Mirror; The Calamitous 14th century” by Barbara Tuchman
 
I am reading Story of a Soul ( I am only on page 86 but it is very nice).
I do have a question. I love historical fiction and historical fiction. However, since I love reading and learning about my faith I feel guilty reading just fiction. Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Blessings to all
Eli
 
Just finished the first volume of the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Now I’m on pins and needles to read the second (which I think is actually the backstory, or ‘prequel’ to the first), but all the library’s copies are checked out! I’ve been waiting on the hold list for over a week and still nothing. :crying:

I may have to break down and buy it just to end the suspense. :rotfl:
 
Morwenna said:
Just finished the first volume of the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. Now I’m on pins and needles to read the second (which I think is actually the backstory, or ‘prequel’ to the first), but all the library’s copies are checked out! I’ve been waiting on the hold list for over a week and still nothing. :crying:

I may have to break down and buy it just to end the suspense. :rotfl:
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I hate waiting for books!
 
mommyof4 said:
Re reading the LOTR series, for about the 10th time!
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I’ve read LoTR many times, too, mommyof4. 🙂 I read it for the first time in fourth grade, and have read it a bunch of times since then. 🙂

Have you also read The Silmarillion or The Hobbit? The Hobbit takes place just before LoTR, and is much more lightheated than LoTR, although there are some darker parts, too. The Silmarillion deals with the creation of the world and the history of the world leading up to LoTR. I highly recommend both, if you haven’t read them yet. 👍
 
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. For being so pulpy, it’s surprisingly well written.
 
Morwenna said:
I’ve read LoTR many times, too, mommyof4. 🙂 I read it for the first time in fourth grade, and have read it a bunch of times since then. 🙂

Have you also read The Silmarillion or The Hobbit? The Hobbit takes place just before LoTR, and is much more lightheated than LoTR, although there are some darker parts, too. The Silmarillion deals with the creation of the world and the history of the world leading up to LoTR. I highly recommend both, if you haven’t read them yet. 👍
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Yep, I’ve read those, too.
 
I have just started “An Exorcist Tells His Story” by Gabriele Amorth

Kathy
 
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.

Summary
“One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.” “The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk - a heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is gone, but tides remain. Not only have the world’s artificial satellites fallen out of orbit, their recovered remains are pitted and aged, as though they’d been in space far longer than their known lifespans. As Tyler, Jason, and Diane grow up, space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial, generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster outside the barrier than inside–more than a hundred million years per day on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the sun are only about forty years in our future.” “Jason, now a promising young scientist, devotes his life to working against this slow-moving apocalypse. Diane throws herself into hedonism, marrying a sinister cult leader who’s forged a new religion out of the fears of the masses.” “Earth sends terraforming machines to Mars to let the onrush of time do its work, turning the planet green. Next they send humans…and immediately get back an emissary with thousands of years of stories to tell about the settling of Mars. Then Earth’s probes reveal that an identical barrier has appeared around Mars. Jason, desperate, seeds near space with self-replicating machines that will scatter copies of themselves outward from the sun - and report back on what they find. Life on Earth is about to get much, much stranger.”–BOOK JACKET {copied from my library’s website

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I’m reading this which is apocalyptic genre, watching the latest Battlestar Gallatica on DVD which is a dark apocalyptic series and now the swine flu. Talk about messing with my head!
 
Katie1723 said:
I have just started “An Exorcist Tells His Story” by Gabriele Amorth

Kathy
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Please let us know what you think. I’ve read American Exorcism and Hostage to the Devil and have wondered about Amorth’s books.
 
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